Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-02
NEIGHBoRHOoD NOTES.

Mr.. Chs B Reardon of Frank
lin, Pa, c. nmercial agent for a
Cleveland house, was waylaid, shot
aud robbed bv two highway men three
miles north of Fra kiln He was re,
turning from Cooperstown in light
buggy, when be met the two men,
one of w bon caught the horse, while
the other run up behind the buggy
and shot Reardon in the back the ball
taking effect just below the right
shoulder blade, and passing upward,
in1icting a dangerous but not neces,
sarily fatal wound.
Reardon Was hen pulled from the
buggy and forcibly beaten about the
head and robbed of nearly $500 The
robbers escaped Reardon made his
way to Franklin and physicians be-
lieve that with proper care he will
recover.
The large tannery of the Acme
Tanning Company, at Acmetonla
station, Is miles from Allegheny on
the West Penn Railroad, was totally
destroyed by fire last Sunday. 1t
is estimated that the the loss will
reach 100000 The new, but small,
town Was only saved from destruc-
tion by the heroic efforts of the resi-
dents. Almost every one worked
like beaver to extinguish the fire,
and several men were injured, while
Others narrowly escaped with their
lives
The tannery was three story
brick building, $50 feet long and 80
feet wide, situated between the rail-
road and the river 1t was operated
by stock company, the majority of
the stock being held by a. Quicken
heimer & Bro, the distillers.
The Bedford Gazette says that a
couple of fair looking females, who
can talk as plausibiy as a lightning
rod agent, are victimizing ladies in
that part of the State Lest they
swoop down on this vicinity, we give
their plan of operations. They sell
marvellous preparation which Will
not only remove tan and freckles but
also transform ''fat and forty" fe-
male toto a peach bloom maiden of
twenty. The fraud works like a
charm. No less than sixteen mid
dle-aged danes in Titusville wanted
to have their youth restored and
gave $40 bottle for the elixir of
beauty. The victims are still as old
as they were, both in appearance and
years, but their fund of experience
has been greatly enlarged.
"A good joke is told on certain
young married man of Etna A fel-
low workman in the tube works ask
ed him what the sex of his three
weeks old baby was. The young
father could not tell positively but
thought it was girl. A bet Of a
keg of beer was made as to The sex of
the child. The father lost the bet,
for upon returning to work next day
he announced that his beloved off
spring was a boy.
Hon. Norman Hall of Sharon,
left for Washington, last week.
About two weeks ago three Boston
gentlemen visited Warren for the
purpose of building q large tannery.
providiug the citizens would make it
an object Their proposition to
come here if the citizens would give
the land and hemlock lumber to build,
was accepted by the citizens. yet the
Boston men 80 far have failed to &C.
cept the offer. These same gentle.
men went to Port Allegheny. The
citizens of that place donated fifteen
acres of land and over $4,000 worth
of hemlock lumber to accept the prop
osition of the Boston firm. The same
trick was played there and the citi
zens had their hard work for naugtE.
The tannery men then went to Olean
and 80 far as can be learn.
ed went through the same operation.
What their object is cannot be uader-
stood. Ledger.
"A despatch from New Castle
dated last Saturday, said, Early in
the week it looked as if dlphtheria
was decreasing here, but now it is
worse than eyer. The origin of tbe
disease here is said to come from the
Italians on George street, whose FL
thy methods have been written CT be-
fore. When their children die it is
said candy is thrown over the corpse
aud then thrown after the departing
hearse. This was done in the case
of an Italian child which died of diph
liberia last summer and the candy
was picked off the street and eaten
by neighboring children, thus caus
ing the spread of the eisease. Com.
plaint was made at the mayors office
today by several ladies Of the filthy
condition of the Italian quarter
The health officer visited the place
and found it worse than had been
told. In one room fourteen persons
were living. The yard in front oi
the house was almost solid mass oil
disgusting filth Measures will be
at once taken to have the place clear.
ed up.
A Franklin, Pa, paper is credi.
tably informed that Henry G. Beatty
of Venango Co, while recently dig,
giDg a trench around his house, when
at depth of between four and five
feet below hard-pan, found silver
plate on which there are characters
of some kind Of language denoting(so
the scholar who has seen it says )tha,
it's date is about 500 years before
Christ. Mr.. Beatty. 80 our infor.
mant says, has been offered and re.
fused $500 f. it.
A man named William Cooper
was arrested at Parker last Wednes
day, for assaulting Mr.. and Mrs Ad.
ans of the Parker House on the
bridge. Mrs. Cooper is employed a,
the hotel, and jealousy is given as
the cause of the assault.
-Guckert and Co.'S furniture fac
tory on Cherry alley, Pittsburg was
destroyed by fire, last Monday after
noon The fire spread 80 rapidly
that the employees barely escaped.
and several were injured.